16.8.16

Yes, I am Qualified To Be Nigeria’s President – Ali Modu Sheriff Says

Ali Modu Sheriff, factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he is qualified to be the president of Nigeria.
Speaking when he appeared on Sunday Politics, a programme on Channels
Television, Sheriff said he has paid his dues in politics and can serve
in the highest office in the land.
He described himself as a highly principled individual, saying he believes in democracy and the rule of law.
The former Borno state governor also denied ever promising to give the vice-president’s ticket to anyone.

“I have never told anyone that I want to be the president
or run for the office of the president, but I have a right. I am a
Nigerian qualified to be a president. Yes I have the right,” he said.
“I am a highly principled person. If as a founding father of the All
Progressives Congress, I could walk out of the convention, then you
would know that I am principled.”
Sheriff also denied the report that he had the intention of stepping
down in 2018 in order to pick the party’s presidential ticket.
“It is a pure lie. Absolute fabrication, I didn’t discuss such with
anybody. The party zoned the presidency to the north, and northern
Nigeria is not for Ali Sheriff alone,” he said.